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Release Date
• USA: Jan 29, 1993
DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 4, 1998
MPAA Rating
PG
Running Time
1 hour, 39 minutes
Country USA
Studio Universal
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Coming Of Age, Spoof, Spy, Cult Classic, Hollywood, Campy, Military, Exploitation
Tagline: Lawrence Woolsey presents the end of civilization as we know it. Make that... Proudly Presents!
Plot: It's 1962 and 15-year-old horror film fan Gene Loomis (Simon Fenton) is the new kid in a small Key West town; the Cuban Missile Crisis is happening in his own backyard; an intriguing girl (Lisa Jakub) is actually looking his way, and best of all, master showman Lawrence Woolsey (John Goodman) is in town promoting his latest sci-fi horror flick. Gene and his friends eagerly gather at the local theater for the debut of MANT!, a terrifying tale of one man's mutation into a demonic ant. At the theater they experience the thrill of a lifetime, as the threat of nuclear war looms overhead. John Goodman is at his uproarious best as the larger-than-life horror promoter who revels in the creation of one-of-a-kind shock and terror as the nation waits for its fate to be revealed. MATINEE is a masterful homage to B-movie science fiction classics of the 1950s and '60s that ingeniously combines science fiction shock and suspense with the real life horror of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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| Directed by |
Joe Dante
Gremlins, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The 'burbs |
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| Written by |
Jerico
My Stepmother Is an Alien | |
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| Cast |
John Goodman
The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Monsters, Inc. |
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 | Kellie Martin
Malibu's Most Wanted, A Goofy Movie, Troop Beverly Hills |
 | Robert Picardo
Star Trek: First Contact, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, The 'burbs |
 | | Omri Katz
Hocus Pocus, Dallas: J.R. Returns, Adventures in Dinosaur City | Lisa Jakub
Independence Day, Mrs. Doubtfire, A Walk on the Moon | |
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| Music By |
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 | Herman Stein
Female on the Beach, The Intruder, No Name on the Bullet |
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